Confederate Men Of Honor

A lot of Southern boys, men of honor, owned no slaves but were fed a patriotic argument and sent off by the South's ruling class (who did own many slaves) to defend their investment in slavery for them. Most were good, ordinary men sent fight a wrong war.

In World War II, the entire generation of young German men became soldiers and died, most not Nazis but ordinary men pulled into the army. The Vietnam War killed 55,000 Americans who would have preferred to have been doing something else, along with 3 million Vietnamese who would have preferred they were not sent over.

The don't fly the swastika in Germany, and it's time that the Confederate battle flags were sent to museums. It is no insult to the many who gave their all. If anything, this change honors them.

The dishonor belongs to those who send ordinary men into harm's way without very, very just and well-reasoned cause. They give their all -- they deserve to be able to trust that they are giving their lives for a just reason. We owe them that, not this flag.